I was talking to one of the girls at work yesterday and found out she's a Doctor Who fan too (that makes 4 of us at work now). I was talking about David Tennant, and then she said that she doesn't like the new series very much, but she's a fan of the old Doctor Who. We got into why, and she went on a slightly heated rant about how the Doctor can go anywhere in space and time, and yet in the new series he spends a lot of time on Earth. Sometimes it's in the present day, sometimes it's Pompeii and sometimes it's New New New New New New New...York, but still Earth. My co-worker's biggest complaint is that the new series isn't very imaginiative. It doesn't spend much time with alien species and far away planets and when it does, they're not very different from Earth.
And I realized that doesn't bother me at all. I haven't seen any of the old Doctor Who episodes (although I'd like to), so maybe if I had I'd feel differently. If I were a fan of the old series that did go all over the universe, then yeah, maybe sticking to Earth would bug me. What I care about the most is the quality of the stories, and they're good on Doctor Who. I can't pick a single favorite episode, but Blink is up there along with Human Nature/Family of Blood and Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. (I know that in season 4 the Doctor and Donna go to an entire planet that's a library, but it's not really that strange of an idea...I'm not counting it as alien.) Those stories deal with humans and Earth and they're brilliant. No complaints from me. The Doctor in the new series seems to like humans. The planet's champion and Defender of the Earth, that stuff.
I'd love an episode on the Daleks' or Cybermen's turf, but if we don't get to see it, I won't be bothered. I like human-centered sci-fi.
Hello, Firefly.
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